Textile and apparel

sector  13% of total export

 5% of total GDP

Yarn and Fibre Fabrics and apparel

 The textile industry has around 4.5 crore workers including 35.22
lakh handloom workers
 India is the world's second largest exporter of textiles and
clothing.
 The demand for technical textiles in the form of PPE suits and
equipment is on rise.
 Weaver MUDRA Scheme

 National Technical Textiles Mission (Seven integrated mega

textile parks and 21 garment industries)
 COVID-19 pandemic tore into the textile industry of India.

 After reopening, India exported textile products worth Rs 1.77

lakh crore between January and July 2021.

 Exports were 52.6% more than the same period last year and
13.7% more than the pre-pandemic market of 2019.

 Indian textiles, has seen a rise in investment as it attracted

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) worth $3.75 billion from April
2000 to March 2021.

 Production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for man-made fiber

and technical textiles is available under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat
package
 Silk city of India
Bhagalpur

 City of Looms and Lores

 Kannur

 Textile City of India

 Coimbatore

 Baniyan City & Knit Wear Capital of India

 Tirupur
 Segments of Textile Industry

Spinning Fabric Manufacturing

For natural fibres

 Ring spinning
 Open-end
spinning  Winding
 Winding
Warping
Manmade fibres  Warping
Sizing
 Melt spinning  Sizing
Weaving
 Wet spinning  Weaving
 Dry jet-wet
spinning

Garment Textile Chemical

Manufacturing processing
 Marking  Singeing, Desizing
 Spreading  Scouring
 Marking and cutting  Bleaching, Mercerization, Dyeing, Finishing
 Bundling , tailoring